Belinda Smith

It's two of the Ashnorts, Christina Cook and Victor Glover, and they're talking about how they felt when they looked through their Orion capsule windows at the moon as they flew past.

It lasted just a second or two, and I actually couldn't even make it happen again.

I had the unfortunate sequence to start looking out the window and then moved to the long lens and it was hard to speak looking through the zoom because I went straight where Christina went and I was walking around down there on the surface climbing and off-roading on that amazing terrain.

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Let's skip mission in under a minute because, you know, the main part's over.

But I would love to get an update on what our emotional support astronauts have been up to since they landed a few days ago.

Just give them some time to put their feet up.

I experienced that feeling actually in the past couple of days where we've had time off of this podcast with you, Jacinta.

So, you know, I can understand Jeremy Hansen's feelings.

At least we went in a tiny little capsule together.

This is true.

I mean, his studio feels like it sometimes.

Yeah.

Very nice.